Question about terrorism doesn't belong in textbook

10:43 PM,
May 1, 2013

Abbie Wolf

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Abbie Wolf

James Rubenstein's April 23 letter to the editor regarding concerns about a section of a geography textbook he authored is wrong on three essential points.

The textbook in question, "The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography" is being taught in Advanced Placement Human Geography classes in Williamson County. The textbook contains the following problematic sentence in its section on terrorism: "Distinguishing terrorism from other acts of political violence can be difficult. For example, if a Palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen Israeli teenagers in a ...